On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 17:37, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2019-12-31 23:04, Hauke Stieler wrote: >> that's true, the EU is one special case here. But would the status of a >> traveler influence the tagging schema of "duty_free=*" in your opinion? > > The EU is only a special case because there are multiple countries within a > single customs area for these purposes. Many airports accommodate both > domestic and international passengers in mixed areas. The only other way I > can see duty free shops working us if domestic passengers were actually > banned from making purchases. This used to be the case within the EU, at some > airports at least. > > In terms of tagging, the scenario described could be something like > duty_free=export - meaning YES if you are exporting it beyond the customs > union area (~~EU), otherwise NO.
Arguably, duty_free=export is the default meaning of duty-free. In this case the shop is a "duty-free shop", it's just that not everyone gets the same prices there (because you can't take advantage of the tax/duty-free status if you're not leaving the customs area). --Jarek _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
